Ian Lynch is a founder member of Irish trad quartet Lankum, winners of the 2024 Choice Music Prize and RTÉ Folk Music Award for Best Album for their Mercury Prize nominated third LP False Lankum. Ian also records and performs as One Leg One Eye, and hosts the popular podcast Fire Draw Near. Paul Duane’s […]
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Mahito, a young 12-year-old boy, struggles to settle in a new town after his mother’s death. However, when a talking heron informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which takes him to another world… Studio Ghibli presents this semi-autobiographical fantasy from the mind of animation
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Join instrument inventor Ed Devane in making a variety of new motor-controlled instruments using reeds, whistles, percussion, and who knows what else! This will be followed by a short improvised audiovisual performance by Ed and the workshop participants. Ed Devane is an experimental musician, instrument designer and workshop facilitator based in Donegal. Ed started out
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Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent film era. It’s difficult to envision a purer, more pared-down work of cinematic art than Carl Theodor Dreyer’s wrenching, intensely focused 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc. The film is often talked about
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Ornithologist Seán Ronayne from Cobh, Co. Cork is on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland – that’s nearly 200 birds. Often joined by his partner Alba, he travels to some of the country’s most beautiful and remote locations to capture its most elusive species and soundscapes: the busy seabird
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In March 2023 the legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto lost his battle with cancer. During his last few years, he was unable to perform live concerts, and so he allowed his son, Neo Sora, to film one final performance. Recorded over a week in late 2022 at NHK Studio in Tokyo, this breathtaking concert features only Sakamoto and his
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Celtronic 2024 will join forces with Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, for an evening of live music and late-night electronic experiments this Friday, March 29th. The event will feature live performances from some of Ireland’s finest musicians and electronic artists, including David Kitt, Gareth Quinn Redmond, Saoirse Miller, Anna Mullarkey, The Fully Automatic Model, Jasmine Wood,
Terzo is the third album by Il Sogno Del Marinaio, the avant-rock trio formed by legendary bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose, Stooges), cult Italian experimentalist Stefano Pilia (Massimo Volume, In Zaire, Afterhours, Rokia Traore) and drummer Paolo Mongardi (Zeus, Fuzz Orchestra, Fulkanelli). This new batch of recordings is an incredible document of a band that’s
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𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗧: We’re delighted to launch our Spring 2024 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 with this fantastic offer. Priced at €45, our season ticket will offer you access to 9 great film screenings at the RCC from February to May and represent a discount of €27. Individual films are priced at €7 plus €1 booking fee. Spring Programme:
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Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write his own outlandish “Black”
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